Current emotion research in behavioral neuroscience: the role(s) of the amygdala
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Substantial advances in our understanding of the neural bases of emotional processing have been made over the past decades. Overall, studies in humans and other animals highlight the key role of the amygdala in the detection and evaluation of stimuli with affective value. Nonetheless, contradictory findings have been reported, especially in terms of the exact role of this structure in the processing of different emotions, giving rise to different neural models of emotion. For instance, although the amygdala has traditionally been considered as exclusively involved in fear (and possibly anger), more recent work suggests that it may be important for processing other types of emotions, and even nonemotional information. A review of the main findings in this field is presented here, together with some of the hypotheses that have been put forward to interpret this literature and explain its inconsistencies.
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Most of the regions involved in emotional memory encoding and consolidation are highly activated during REM sleep.
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- Authors
- Armony, J. L.
- Affiliations
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Armony, Jorge L.
- Venue
- Emotion Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-10-04
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 104-115
- ISSN
- 1754-0739 (ISSN-L)
- 1754-0747
- OpenAlex
- W1987466351
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 118
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 2.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Emotion Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- amygdala, emotional processing, fear, anger, emotional value
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